Tech giant IBM today said it has built a private cloud environment to support virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) at India-based KPO Evalueserve.com. The private cloud deployed on IBM Systems will increase productivity of Evalueserve's 2,000 employees, IBM said in a statement. No financial details were disclosed.

"Operating at maximum capacity, our server and storage resources were finding it hard to keep up with our growing business needs. IBM helped us create a scalable and flexible cloud infrastructure which can easily support our growth for the next 10 years," Evalueserve CIO Sachin Jain said.

The new platform helped Evalueserve to optimise existing infrastructure resources in a virtualised environment, which provided its employees quicker access to client research data. OnMobile appoints Jacks Sterenfeld as VP Latin America * Mobile value-added services provider OnMobile Global today said it has appointed Jacks Sterenfeld as Vice President for its Latin America operations.

In this role, Sterenfeld will be the Client Facing Unit Head for OnMobile's operations in Latin America and will manage all sales, delivery and operations activities for the region, it said in a statement.

His charter will be to implement the company's sales strategy that addresses deeper penetration into their existing customer base, opening up new accounts within the region and manage CXO level relationships within the client organisation.

CricHQ partners Nokia, UCL in India * CricHQ, a New Zealand-based cricket technology firm, has partnered Nokia handsets (a subsidiary of Microsoft Mobile) and UCWeb to expand its presence in India. Under the partnership, CricHQ will integrate the technology co-developed with Nokia into Nokia X, Nokia Lumia and Nokia Asha range of phones.

Available in 120 countries, the app provides live scoring and competition management via cloud and mobile technology. Under the collaboration with UCWeb, the solution will be endorsed to the UC browser user base in India. Both the firms together will integrate key performance analysis stats of CricHQ into the UC Browser during the IPL season.

Ravi Rajagopal new Avantha Group Company Vice President * Avantha Group Company CG has appointed Ravi Rajagopal as their Executive Vice-President and Global Head ? Legal, Governance and Risk, the company said.

"Rajagopal will also be a member of the Executive Committee of CG. Based out of Mumbai, Rajagopal will lead CG's strategy, conceptualisation of frameworks and global deployment in the areas of Legal, Governance and Risk," the company said in a statement. He was earlier the General Counsel at Essar Steel India Ltd, where he headed the legal, compliance and contracts functions. .